%0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2021 %T Learning from Early Adopters of Blockchain Technology: A Systematic Review of Supply Chain Case Studies %A Sevda Dede %A Mesut Can Köseoğlu %A H. Funda Yercan %K blockchain %K digitalization %K distributed ledger technology %K supply chain %K systematic review %X Blockchain technology is widely seen as a promising technology for global supply chains, though early adoption of the technology is both costly and risky. Along with many other discouraging factors, large investments required to enter or develop a blockchain raise barriers to entry. Concerns about potential benefits, on the other hand, have led to companies questioning whether it is worth it. Consequently, many players in the global arena are still preferring to wait by observing current practices before making investments, while trying to figure out what the technology might bring them. Hence, the main purpose of this paper is to research various implementations of blockchain technology in supply chains, in order to learn from its early adopters. For this purpose, we chose case studies as the research method, which we used in a systematic way. We focused on multiple relevant case studies from previous research concerning the use of blockchain technology in supply chain practices. Through a systematic analysis of case studies, the study paper aims at bringing forward different views, approaches and results about blockchain adoption, as a way to show the pros and cons of adopting the technology under certain circumstances. The previous research was obtained from the Web of Science Core Collection. This paper contributes to the literature by showcasing the use of blockchain in supply chains via multiple cases to learn from early blockchain adopters in supply chain practices. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 11 %P 19-31 %8 06/2021 %G eng %U timreview.ca/article/1447 %N 6 %1 Istanbul University Sevda Dede is a PhD candidate at Istanbul University and is working on her dissertation on the orchestration of digital innovation in business ecosystems. She holds BA and MA degrees in Logistics Management, both from Izmir University of Economics. She began her career as a research assistant in 2009 and worked as a professional in business development and supply chain management departments until 2016. She is currently a full-time lecturer at Piri Reis University, in her fourth year of teaching experience. In her research, she mainly focuses on digital innovation in supply chains and business ecosystems from a managerial point of view. %2 Piri Reis University M. Can Köseoğlu graduated from Piri Reis University of Maritime Transportation and Management Engineering in 2016 and obtained his MSc degree in Maritime Transportation Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, while also working towards his second MSc degree in Industrial Engineering in Galatasaray University. Currently he is working as a research assistant in Piri Reis University Maritime Transportation and Management Engineering Department. His studies focus on green ports, ship routing optimization and smart technologies in maritime transportation. %3 Piri Reis University Funda Yercan, a Professor of International Shipping and Logistics Management since 2005, holds a PhD in International Shipping, Transportation and Logistics from the University of Plymouth in the UK. She has been in professional life and academia more than 30 years, teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels, conducting research, publishing papers in international journals indexed in SSCI and SCI, presenting papers at international conferences in a number of countries, and serving as an administrator. She was also a Visiting Professor at Maine Maritime Academy-MMA in the USA, founding Dean of the Maritime Faculty at Kyrenia American University in Northern Cyprus and is currently the Dean of the Maritime Faculty at Piri Reis University in Istanbul, Turkey. Her studies focus on international shipping, maritime logistics, supply chains, and smart technologies. %& 19 %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1447 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2021 %T Living Labs for Public Sector Innovation: insights from a European case study %A Anne Vorre Hansen %A Lars Fuglsang %A Christine Liefooghe %A Luis Rubalcaba %A David Gago %A Ines Mergel & Nathalie Haug %A Maria Taivalsaari Røhnebæk & Francesco Mureddu %K Citizen engagement %K co-creation %K living labs %K Open innovation %K Public sector innovation %X Living labs have gained increased attention in research and practice as both a practical and theoretical innovation phenomenon that emphasizes co-creation, real-life settings, and user/customer involvement. More recently, living labs have also emerged as a specific approach to open innovation processes in the context of publics across the EU. Nevertheless, it is still not clear how the understanding of living labs can be translated and organized into new sectorial settings, what type of public sector innovation challenges it addresses, and what role citizens and users have. The aim of this article is therefore to explore and analyze how living labs are applied as processes for public sector innovation. Based on a mixed method approach of 21 European living lab cases, the analysis reveals a pattern of three different processes for living lab organizational and actor roles: living labs organized as cross-sectorial collaboration, living labs emerging within the public sector as main initiator and beneficiary, and living labs developed by civil society actors. The findings are presented as three scenarios for implementing living labs, which also acts as a background for the article's final discussion about the potentials and pitfalls of living labs in public sector contexts. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 11 %P 47-58 %8 12/2021 %G eng %U timreview.ca/article/1464 %N 9/10 %1 Roskilde University Anne Vorre Hansen (Corresponding author) is Associate Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Roskilde University. Anne is an experienced consultant, project manager and researcher of user- and citizen-driven innovation processes across the private, public and third sector, alongside of civil society led initiatives. In her current research, she focuses on social innovation and value co-creation processes and practices. %2 Roskilde University Lars Fuglsang is Professor at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research is on how institutional and organizational frameworks are created to deal with the impact of innovation, technology and other forms of change on business and society. His current research focuses on practice-based understandings of the innovation process, where innovation is seen as closely connected with practices and routines. %3 Lille University Christine Liefooghe is Lecturer in economic geography at the Faculty of Economic, Social and Territory Sciences, Lille University, France. Her research focuses on innovation, regional development, and urban change in the knowledge, cultural and creative economy. Her latest projects have focused on the creative city, then the spatial diffusion of third places (coworking, Fablabs) and, within the framework of the Co-VAL H2020 project, on Living Labs and the digitalization of public policies. %4 University of Alacala Luis Rubalcaba is Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Business Administration, University of Alcalá and director of the Master on Innovation Economics, Management and Technology. Previous positions: scientific co-coordinator of the Co-VAL H2020 project on public sector innovation, senior innovation specialist at the World Bank in Washington, DC (US), visiting Fulbright Scholar at Boston University (US), distinguished professor at VTT-Tekes/Academy of Science (Finland), honorary scholar at the University of Birmingham (UK), and president of RESER (European Association for Services Research). %# San Pablo CEU University David Gago is Lecturer at San Pablo CEU University, Spain, and Professor of the Master on Innovation Economics, Management and Technology at the University of Alcalá, Spain. He has researched and published in the areas of service innovation, innovation metrics and impacts of innovation, and public policies. His practical experience includes working extensively both with public and private boards on strategic planning, decision making, and evaluation/impact assessment. Over time he has also served non-profit organizations. %$ University of Konstanz Ines Mergel is full Professor of digital governance at the University of Konstanz, Germany, where she heads the Digital Governance Lab. She is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). Her research focuses on the digital transformation of the public sector. University of Konstanz Nathalie Haug holds a master’s degree in Politics and Public Administration and is currently a PhD Student in the department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. Her research interests cover public sector innovation, digital transformation of organizations, as well as citizen participation in the design and delivery of public services. %] Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences Maria Taivalsaari Røhnebæk is a senior researcher at Inland School of Business and Social Sciences at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. She holds a master’s degree in social anthropology and a PhD in technology, innovation and culture from the University of Oslo. Her research focuses on innovation and digitalization in public services, with emphasis on welfare, care, and social services. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in India and Norway, and she is currently working with research projects focusing on service innovation, service design, and co-creation in public services. Belgian Think Tank Lisbon Council Francesco Mureddu is an analyst and strategist in innovation and technology policies and is currently Director at the Belgian Think Tank Lisbon Council. Aside from his primary activity, he serves as partner and business development consultant for the consultancy start-up DataPower Consulting, as well as consultant for several clients including PwC Italy, KPMG Italy, NOVA, JRC Seville, Outsight, Region Emilia-Romagna (Italy), Manpower, Adecco, Proter, and I2Grow. He holds an MA in Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain and a PhD in Economics from the University of Cagliari. %& 47 %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1464 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2019 %T Leveraging AI-based Decision Support for Opportunity Analysis %A Wolfgang Groher %A Friedrich-Wilhelm Rademacher %A André Csillaghy %K front-end of innovation; environmental scanning; information processing; opportunity; innovation search field; information retrieval; artificial intelligence; decision-making; latent semantic indexing; design-science %X The dynamics and speed of change in corporate environments have increased. At the front-end of innovation, firms are challenged to evaluate growing amounts of information within shorter time frames in order to stay competitive. Either they spend significant time on structured data analysis, at the risk of delayed market launch, or they follow their intuition, at the risk of not meeting market trends. Both scenarios constitute a significant risk for a firm’s continued existence. Motivated by this, a conceptual model is presented in this paper that aims at remediating these risks. Grounded on design science methodology, it concentrates on previous assessments of innovation search fields. These innovation search fields assist in environmental scanning and lay the foundation for deciding which opportunities to pursue. The model applies a novel AI-based approach, which draws on natural language processing and information retrieval. To provide decision support, the approach includes market-, technology-, and firm-related criteria. This allows us to replace intuitive decision-making by fact-based considerations. In addition, an often-iterative approach for environmental scanning is replaced by a more straightforward process. Early testing of the conceptual model has shown results of increased quality and speed of decision-making. Further testing and feedback is still required to enhance and calibrate the AI-functionality. Applied in business environments, the approach can contribute to remediate fuzziness in early front-end activities, thus helping direct innovation managers to “do the right things”. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 9 %P 29-35 %8 12/2019 %G eng %U timreview.ca/article/1289 %N 12 %1 University of Applied Sciences, St. Gallen Wolfgang Groher holds a position as lecturer and researcher for business informatics at the University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland. His primary research interest lies in the front-end of innovation and supporting it with data science-based approaches. This includes the topic of identifying weak signals for strategic foresight. He holds a diploma as business engineer from the University of Karlsruhe and has many years of international industry experience in IT-, SCM- and consulting positions at Siemens. Within the Swiss association VNL for logistics professionals he is heading the expert group for logistics innovation. %2 University of Applied Sciences FHNW Friedrich-W. Rademacher is a lecturer and professor for production and logistics systems at the University of Applied Sciences FHNW Northwestern Switzerland in Windisch, Switzerland. His scientific focus lies on innovation of logistics processes. He was awarded a PhD at the TU Dortmund and holds an engineering diploma from the Ruhr University Bochum. He has extensive industrial experience as a managing director in the telecommunications and public transport sectors. %3 University of Applied Sciences FHNW André Csillaghy is the head of the Institute for Data Science at the University of Applied Sciences FHNW Northwestern Switzerland. He has been working on data systems from diverse origins for the last two decades. His primary interests are data pipelines, machine learning, and applications on very large data sets. He graduated in Computer Science at ETH Zurich, moved to the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the faculty at FHNW. %& 29 %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1289 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2019 %T Live and Let Die: On the Management of Creativity %A Michael Hartmann %A Désirée Laubengaier %A Kai Foerstl %K case study %K creativity %K Feedback %K Innovation management %K Qualitative Research. %X Literature has pointed to the importance of feedback on creative ideas in innovation management processes. However, little is known about the practices that constitute the feedback process and their effect on employees’ future willingness to consistently and recurrently contribute with creative ideas to organized innovation management efforts. In this research, we draw on data from a single case study at a German multinational manufacturing firm. We show the flip side of managerial attempts to provide feedback and foster employees’ creative output. In particular, we identify distinct practices organizational actors employ along the sequence of idea generation, elaboration, championing, and implementation, and find that the practices can turn organized innovation management efforts into a political process. Furthermore, we present a virtuous and a vicious circle of managerial attempts to manage creativity in innovation processes. In doing so, we highlight the value of taking a practice lens to better understand the challenges in organized innovation management efforts and propose future research in other contexts. We suggest that managers should flexibly design organized innovation management processes to account for radical ideas and to pay close attention to a coherent communication when providing feedback and encouraging employees to contrive creative ideas. Our work contributes to the body of research on innovation management by shedding light on the dark side of organized innovation management efforts. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 9 %P 16-26 %8 10/2019 %G eng %U https://timreview.ca/article/1272 %N 10 %1
Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts
 
Michael Hartmann is Professor for Industrial Marketing and Sales at Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany. He received his PhD from European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, where he joined the doctoral program „Dynamic Capabilitites and Relationships“. Before entering academia, he has been working in industry as a Key Account Manager and Business Unit Manager. In his teaching, he focuses on (industrial) marketing and personal selling. His research interest centers around the management and marketing of creative ideas and innovations in business-to-business settings and personal selling interactions.
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Politecnico di Milano
 
Désirée Laubengaier holds a Master of Science degree in Business Management from Julius-Maximilians-University of Wuerzburg, Germany. At present, she is pursuing her doctoral studies at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Her research interests are in the fields of innovation management, process innovation and organizational culture. She is also particularly interested in qualitative research and process studies. Her previous professional experience includes examining organizational cultural aspects of innovativeness in an industrial context.
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German Graduate School of Management and Law
 
Kai Foerstl (Dr. rer. pol. habil., EBS Business School) is Professor of Supply Chain Management and Logistics at German Graduate School of Management and Law, Heilbronn. In his research and teaching he focuses on cross-functional supply chain teams, reshoring/insourcing and sustainable global sourcing. He has been involved in publicly funded and industrial research projects in the pharmaceutical, chemical, automotive and automation industries as well as research projects involving logistics service providers and international retailers. His research has been published in leading outlets such as Journals of Supply Chain Management, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, and other scholarly and managerial outlets such as Supply Chain Management Review. He serves on numerous editorial review boards as associate editor and reviewer.
%& 16 %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1272 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2018 %T Lean Commercialization: A New Framework for Commercializing High Technologies %A Saheed A. Gbadegeshin %K Finland %K high technologies %K lean commercialization %K lean startup %K technology-based companies %X Commercializing high technologies is expensive, tedious, and resource intensive. Meanwhile, there is a need for quick diffusion of innovations due to economic pressures for companies and research institutes. Therefore, this article proposes a new framework: lean commercialization. The framework represents a transformation of new technology and knowledge to products and services through the application of the lean/agile methodology. This methodology focuses on how resources can be minimized during the development, manufacturing, and marketing of new products and services, while still being accepted by customers. The lean commercialization framework was developed from a case study of high-technology companies and by interviewing commercialization experts. This article contributes to the theory and practice of commercialization of high technologies and provides a procedure for the practical application of the lean commercialization framework. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 8 %P 50-63 %8 09/2018 %G eng %U https://timreview.ca/article/1186 %N 9 %1 University of Turku Saheed A. Gbadegeshin is a PhD Candidate at Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland. His research interests include commercialization, high technology, the lean startup methodology, entrepreneurship, business internationalization, and family-run businesses. He holds an MSc degree in Entrepreneurship from the University of Jyväskylä and an MBA in International Business Management from Turku University of Applied Sciences in Finland. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1186 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2018 %T The Library Living Lab: A Collaborative Innovation Model for Public Libraries %A Fernando Vilariño %A Dimosthenis Karatzas %A Alberto Valcarce %K cultural spaces %K innovation %K library %K Living lab %K participatory %K public spaces %K technology %X New models of governance advance towards participatory schemes in which citizens not only play an active role in decision-making processes but also the processes by which new products and services are defined and introduced. In parallel, technological innovations, and the new horizons of creativity that they allow, open a huge range of options to innovation in all areas of society, particularly in the cultural field. Under these two premises – participation and innovation – the Library Living Lab initiative was born at the Public Library of Miquel Batllori Volpelleres in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona. The Library Living Lab is a space that gathers all stakeholders around the public library with the aim of exploring new methods and tools that allow us to enjoy culture both individually and collectively. This article describes how technology can be an enabling factor in a citizen-initiated grassroots project. The project implements a complete model of inter-institutional collaboration with all relevant actors around the living lab working group. The specific challenges of developing an open, flexible, and inter-connected space are identified, and the interaction dynamics based on a challenge–action–return methodology definition are described through practical examples. Our conclusions tackle the challenges of a horizon for the implementation of innovation initiatives – such as living labs – in public spaces. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 8 %P 17-25 %8 12/2018 %G eng %U https://timreview.ca/article/1202 %N 12 %1 Computer Vision Centre and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Fernando Vilariño is Associate Director of the Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at the Universtitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Computer Vision and is a Lecturer in Machine Learning and Robotics. He is Co-Founder of the Library Living Lab in Barcelona, and he is President of the European Network of Living Labs. In 2014, he received a Google Research Award in the line of Eye-Tracking Interaction. %2 Computer Vision Centre and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Dimosthenis Karatzas is Associate Director of the Computer Vision Centre and Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Computer Vision and is a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence. He is Co-Founder of the Library Living Lab in Barcelona. In 2013, Dimosthenis received the prestigious IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award and, in 2016, he received the Google Research Award in the line of Machine Perception. %3 President of the Association of Neighbours of Volpelleres Alberto Valcarce is President of the Association of Neighbours Volpelleres in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona. He is a lawyer and holds an MSc degree in Water Management. He participated in the inception, design, and implementation of the Library Living Lab in Barcelona. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1202 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2018 %T Living Labs versus Lean Startups: An Empirical Investigation %A Dimitri Schuurman %A Sonja M. Protic %K entrepreneurs %K impact %K Innovation management %K lean startup %K Living lab %K Open innovation %K testing %K user innovation %X Although we seem to be living in an era where founding a startup has never been easier, studies point to the high mortality rates of these organizations. This “startup hype” has also induced many practitioner-based innovation management approaches that lack empirical studies and validation. Moreover, a lot of these approaches have rather similar angles, but use different wordings. Therefore, in this article, we look into two of these “hyped” concepts: the lean startup and living labs. We review the academic studies on these topics and explore a sample of 86 entrepreneurial projects based on project characteristics and outcomes. Our main finding is that the two approaches appear to be complementary. Living labs are powerful instruments to implement the principles of the lean startup, as the real-life testing and multi-disciplinary approach of living labs seem to generate more actionable outcomes. However, living labs also require the flexibility of a startup – ideally a lean one – to actually deliver this promise. Thus, rather than picking a winner in this comparison, we argue that combining the concepts’ different strengths can bring clear benefits. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 8 %P 7-16 %8 12/2018 %G eng %U https://timreview.ca/article/1201 %N 12 %1 imec.livinglabs Dimitri Schuurman is the Team Lead of the Business Model and User Research Team at imec.livinglabs. He holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Communication Sciences from Ghent University in Belgium. Together with his imec colleagues, Dimitri developed a specific living lab offering targeted at entrepreneurs in which he has managed over 100 innovation projects. He is also active in the International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) and in the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) as a living labs specialist. His main interests and research topics are situated in the domains of open innovation, user innovation, and innovation management. %2 University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Sonja M. Protic is a Researcher at the Institute of Production and Logistics at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. She finished her Master’s studies in Environmental Science and her Bachelor studies in Business Administration. She has several years of work experience in national and European research projects and in international project development for a multilateral organization. Her research interests include sustainable freight transport, innovation management, and living labs. She is enrolled as a doctoral student, writing her doctoral thesis in the field of innovation systems at multimodal inland terminals. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1201 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2017 %T Lean Internationalization: How to Globalize Early and Fast in a Small Economy %A Michael Neubert %K born-global firm %K early and fast internationalization %K global marketing %K high-tech startup %K international entrepreneurship %K lean internationalization %K small and open economy %K Uppsala internationalization process %X This study examines the early market internationalization of 32 high-tech startups that operate internationally from small and open economies. It uses a comparative cross-national multiple case study research design to explore how such startups may differ in their speed of internationalization. Based on interviews with the founders, the speed of early market internationalization in these startups increases significantly due to the application of lean market development processes. The findings provide a basis for developing propositions for further comparative studies focusing on the early and fast internationalization of high-tech startups based in emerging and developed markets. The study contributes to the literature on networks, internationalization, and international entrepreneurship. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 7 %P 16-22 %8 05/2017 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/1073 %N 5 %1 International School of Management Michael Neubert is a Professor at the International School of Management in Paris, France, where he obtained his PhD and is now also Chair of the Strategic Management Committee. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Universidad Paraguayo Alemana in Asunción, Paraguay. He teaches international business, strategic management, doing business in foreign markets, and international finance. His research interests concern the internationalization of high-tech startups from small and open economies. Michael is member of the Academy of International Business, and he is a partner of a private equity firm that invests in high-tech startups and supports them in the development of new foreign markets. Michael is also the CEO of C2NM, a Swiss consulting firm specializing in the field of international and intercultural management. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/1073 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2016 %T License Compliance in Open Source Cybersecurity Projects %A Ahmed Shah %A Selman Selman %A Ibrahim Abualhaol %K contamination %K copyright %K cybersecurity %K GPL %K license %K open source %K third-party code %X Developers of cybersecurity software often include and rely upon open source software packages in their commercial software products. Before open source code is absorbed into a proprietary product, developers must check the package license to see if the project is permissively licensed, thereby allowing for commercial-friendly inheritance and redistribution. However, there is a risk that the open source package license could be inaccurate due to being silently contaminated with restrictively licensed open source code that may prohibit the sale or confidentiality of commercial derivative work. Contamination of commercial products could lead to expensive remediation costs, damage to the company's reputation, and costly legal fees. In this article, we report on our preliminary analysis of more than 200 open source cybersecurity projects to identify the most frequently used license types and languages and to look for evidence of permissively licensed open source projects that are likely contaminated by restrictive licensed material (i.e., containing commercial-unfriendly code). Our analysis identified restrictive license contamination cases occurring in permissively licensed open source projects. Furthermore, we found a high proportion of code that lacked copyright attribution. We expect that the results of this study will: i) provide managers and developers with an understanding of how contamination can occur, ii) provide open source communities with an understanding on how they can better protect their intellectual property by including licenses and copyright information in their code, and ii) provide entrepreneurs with an understanding of the open source cybersecurity domain in terms of licensing and contamination and how they affect decisions about cybersecurity software architectures. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 6 %P 28-35 %8 02/2016 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/966 %N 2 %1 Carleton University Ahmed Shah holds a BEng in Software Engineering and is pursuing an MASc degree in Technology Innovation Management at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Ahmed has experience working in cybersecurity research with the VENUS Cybersecurity Corporation and has experience managing legal deliverables at IBM. %2 Carleton University Selman Selman is a Software Engineer at Synopsys under the Software Integrity Group. He is also carrying out graduate studies in Technology Innovation Management at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. %3 Carleton University Ibrahim Abualhaol holds BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology, an MEng in Technology Innovation Management from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, United States. He worked for two years as a Wireless Engineer at Broadcom Corporation and as a System Engineer Intern at Qualcomm Incorporation in the United States. He then worked as an Assistant Professor of Wireless Communications at Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates for four years. Currently, he is a Cybersecurity R & D Engineer working on operationalizing collective intelligence with artificial intelligence to improve cybersecurity. He is senior member of IEEE, a member of Phi Kappa Phi, and a member of Sigma Xi. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/966 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2015 %T Lessons in Creativity from the Innovative Design of the Swatch %A Gilles Garel %K concept %K creativity %K design %K engineering %K innovation %K knowledge %K Swatch %X No space is off-limits to innovation, even those occupied for many years by leading players and proven solutions. The case of the innovative Swatch watch, re-examined in this article with new information and insights, demonstrates that, without knowledge, design is not possible; but, with only knowledge, all we can do is reproduce. Innovation also requires creativity, the introduction of new concepts. Knowledge needs to be associated with unbridled, surprising, and hitherto unknown creativity, as described by the concept-knowledge theory of design. In this article, a new analysis of the well-known but misunderstood case of the Swatch yield lessons about the importance of creativity and knowledge in developing innovative products. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 5 %P 34-40 %8 07/2015 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/912 %N 7 %1 Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers Gilles Garel is a Full Chair Professor of Innovation Management at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) in Paris, France. He is also Professor at l'École Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France. At the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Sciences de l'Action (LIRSA) at CNAM Paris, Gilles conducts research in the field of innovation and design management in close collaboration with innovative firms and organizations. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/912 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2015 %T Level Up Your Strategy: Towards a Descriptive Framework for Meaningful Enterprise Gamification %A Umar Ruhi %K aesthetics %K behaviour change %K dynamics %K enterprise gamification %K gameful design %K gamification %K human-computer interaction %K mechanics %K persuasive technologies %K user experience %X Gamification initiatives are currently top-of-mind for many organizations seeking to engage their employees in creative ways, improve their productivity, and drive positive behavioural outcomes in their workforce – ultimately leading to positive business outcomes on the whole. Despite its touted benefits, little empirical research has been done to date to investigate technological and individual personal factors that determine the success or failure of enterprise gamification initiatives. In this article, we provide a summary of our preliminary research findings from three case studies of gamification initiatives across different business contexts and present an empirically validated descriptive framework that details the key success factors for enterprise gamification. Our adaptation of the mechanics, dynamics, and aesthetics (MDA) framework for enterprise gamification aims to explicate the connections between end-user motivations, interactive gameplay elements, and technology features and functions that constitute effective gamification interventions in the enterprise. Following a discussion of the core elements in the framework and their interrelationships, the implications of our research are presented in the form of guidelines for the management and design of gamification initiatives and applications. The research findings presented in this article can potentially aid in the development of game mechanics that translate into positive user experiences and foster higher levels of employee engagement. Additionally, our research findings provide insights on key success factors for the effective adoption and institutionalization of enterprise gamification initiatives in organizations, and subsequently help them enhance the performance of their employees and drive positive business outcomes. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 5 %P 5-16 %8 08/2015 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/918 %N 8 %1 University of Ottawa Umar Ruhi is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems and E-Business Technologies at the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and a Research Associate at the IBM Centre for Business Analytics & Performance. His teaching and research interests include end-user computing, knowledge management, social computing, and consumer health informatics. His empirical research projects are predicated upon an interdisciplinary socio-technical perspective of contemporary technology applications and related organizational practices and end-user behaviour. His research projects incorporate the use of behavioural methods as well as design-science research approaches. Umar received his PhD in Information Systems from the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. His doctoral dissertation won the Best Doctoral Thesis award conferred by the German Society for Online Research (DGOF). Before joining academia on a full-time basis, Umar worked as an information technology professional and a management consultant for a variety of enterprise technology initiatives with various private and public sector organizations. More information about Umar is available at his website: umar.biz %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/918 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2015 %T Leveraging Living Lab Innovation Processes through Crowdsourcing %A Anna Ståhlbröst %A Josefin Lassinantti %K citizen %K crowdsourcing %K ICT %K innovation process %K Living lab %K user %X Around the globe, crowdsourcing initiatives are emerging and contributing in a diversity of areas, such as in crisis management and product development and to carry out micro-tasks such as translations and transcriptions. The essence of crowdsourcing is to acknowledge that not all the talented people work for you; hence, crowdsourcing brings more perspectives, insights, and visions to, for instance, an innovation process. In this article, we analyze how crowdsourcing can contribute to the different stages of innovation processes carried out in living labs and thus contribute to living labs by strengthening their core role as innovation process facilitators. We have also identified benefits and challenges that need to be grappled with for managers of living labs to make it possible for the crowd to fully support their cause. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 5 %P 28-36 %8 12/2015 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/950 %N 12 %1 Luleå University of Technology Anna Ståhlbröst is Associate Professor in Information Systems at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden. Her research is focused on the phenomena of living labs and open, user-driven innovation processes, with special interest in end-user needs and motivations. Anna's research is related to different application areas such as domestic IT use, energy efficiency, and smart cities. She has participated in several international and national innovation and research projects, and she is currently involved in the projects IoT Lab, USEMP, and Privacy Flag, which are financed by the European Commission. Anna has contributed to the field with more than forty journal and conference articles. %2 Luleå University of Technology Josefin Lassinantti is a PhD student in Information Systems at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden, where she received a licentiate degree in 2014. Her research focuses on open data as an arena for citizen innovation and value creation by applying a social constructivist lens and adding theories from the innovation field, thus aiming to contribute to the field of public administration and e-government. In parallel with research, she teaches courses related to design of mobile and computer interactions, with a special interest in maintaining a good balance between acknowledging both the innovative possibilities of new ICT as well as its societal consequences. Josefin is also involved in the IoT Lab project, financed by the European Union's 7th Framework Programme. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/950 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2015 %T Luxury and Creativity: Exploration, Exploitation, or Preservation? %A Joanne Roberts %A John Armitage %K craftsmanship %K creativity %K innovation %K knowledge %K luxury %X This article considers the role of creativity in the production and delivery of luxury. The concept of creativity is closely aligned to the idea of luxury goods as rare and highly crafted, often unique, objects produced through artistic endeavour. Moreover, some luxuries, such as expensive cars and private jets, require leading-edge design and technologically advanced inputs. Although creativity is essential for the development of new luxury goods and services, this article highlights that some luxuries are timeless and eschew the changes associated with radical creative transformations. Following a brief discussion of the nature of luxury and creativity, a number of examples are employed to illustrate the different roles of creativity in the development and delivery of different types of luxury. The relationship between luxury and creativity is shown to be varied and complex. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 5 %P 41-49 %8 07/2015 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/913 %N 7 %1 University of Southampton Joanne Roberts is Professor in Arts and Cultural Management and Director of the Winchester Luxury Research Group at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Her research interests include knowledge, innovation, creativity, and luxury. Joanne has published articles in a wide range of international journals, including the Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, and Research Policy. Additionally, she has authored and edited a number of books. Her latest sole-authored book is A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Knowledge Management (Sage Publications, 2015). %2 University of Southampton John Armitage is Professor of Media Arts and Co-Director of the Winchester Luxury Research Group at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. He is currently co-editing Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media with Joanne Roberts for Edinburgh University Press, and for Bloomsbury he is editing The Luxury Reader/ with Joanne Roberts and Jonathan Faiers and writing Luxury and Visual Culture. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/913 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2013 %T Leveraging Old Intellectual Property to Accelerate Technology Entrepreneurship %A Derek Smith %K accelerated startup %K business models %K copyright %K crowdfunding %K due diligence %K entrepreneurs %K funding %K intellectual property %K old technology %K product development clearance %K trademark %X Acquiring or licensing assets to older technologies, including surviving intellectual property rights, is an often-overlooked viable strategy for accelerating technology entrepreneurship. This strategy can help entrepreneurs short-cut the growth of a customer base, reduce development effort, and shorten the time to market with a minimum viable product. However, this strategy is not without risk; entrepreneurs need to be careful that the acquired intellectual property rights are not fraught with issues that could severely outweigh any perceived value. Proper investigation is required to ensure success because the current literature fails to provide tools that an entrepreneur can apply when considering the acquisition of intellectual property. This article includes a case study of a technology company – Piranha Games – that indirectly acquired sole and exclusive access to a substantial historical customer base by acquiring and licensing older technology and surviving intellectual property assets. The founders then leveraged the existing product brand and its historical customers to acquire significant funding and went global with a minimum viable product in three years. The copyright and trademark assets provided value on day one to Piranha Games by making it difficult and risky for others to exploit the technology. Based on this case study, this article offers recommendations to entrepreneurs who may benefit from acquiring old intellectual property to accelerate the growth of their startups. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 3 %P 21-27 %8 06/2013 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/693 %N 6 %1 Magneto Innovention Management Derek Smith is the founder and principal of Magneto Innovention Management, an intellectual property consulting firm that assists entrepreneurs and small businesses to navigate and grow their international patent portfolios. He has over 20 years of experience working as an intellectual property management consultant and patent agent for IBM Canada, Bell Canada and, most recently, Husky Injection Molding Systems where he was Director, Global Intellectual Property. Prior to entering the field of intellectual property, he was an advisory engineer at IBM Canada where he was involved in a variety of leading-edge software development projects. Derek is currently a graduate student in the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He also holds a BEng degree in Systems and Computer Engineering from Carleton University and is a registered patent agent in both Canada and the United States. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/693 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2013 %T Linking Living Lab Characteristics and Their Outcomes: Towards a Conceptual Framework %A Carina Veeckman %A Dimitri Schuurman %A Seppo Leminen %A Mika Westerlund %K co-creation %K innovation ecosystem %K Living lab %K Open innovation %K user involvement %X Despite almost a decade of living lab activity all over Europe, there still is a lack of empirical research into the practical implementation and the related outcomes of living labs. Therefore, this article proposes a framework to create a better understanding of the characteristics and outcomes of living labs. We investigate three living labs in Belgium and one in Finland to learn how the different building blocks of living lab environments contribute to the outputs of innovation projects launched within the lab. The findings imply that managers and researchers contemplating innovation in living labs need to consider the intended inputs and outcomes, and reframe their innovation activities accordingly. We formulate practical guidelines on how living labs should be managed on the levels of community interaction, stakeholder engagement, and methodological setup to succeed in implementing living lab projects and to create user-centred innovations. That way, living lab practitioners can work towards a more sustainable way of setting up living labs that can run innovation projects over a longer period of time. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 3 %P 6-15 %8 12/2013 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/748 %N 12 %1 iMinds Carina Veeckman is a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, where she started working for the iMinds-SMIT research group in 2011. Until March 2013, Carina was responsible for the living lab methodology within the Flemish Living Lab Platform (FLELLAP), which included numerous projects within the smart grids, smart media, and smart cities domains with a test panel of 2,000 users. Her current research and interests are related to open data and the co-creation of mobile applications within a smart city context, and the willingness to share location information when using these applications. %2 iMinds Dimitri Schuurman is a Senior Researcher at the iMinds Media & ICT (MICT) research group and is responsible for the methodology of living lab projects facilitated by iMinds iLab.o. His involvement in living labs started in 2010 with the Mediatuin and LeYLab living labs. To date, he has managed over 30 concrete living lab projects that deal with new media and innovative use of ICT. He is currently finishing his PhD on living labs at Ghent University in Belgium. %3 Laurea University of Applied Sciences Seppo Leminen holds positions as Principal Lecturer at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the School of Business at Aalto University in Finland. He holds a doctoral degree in Marketing from the Hanken School of Economics and a licentiate degree in Information Technology from the Helsinki University of Technology (now the School of Electrical Engineering at Aalto University). His doctoral research focused on perceived differences and gaps in buyer-seller relationships in the telecommunication industry. His research and consulting interests include living labs, open innovation, value co-creation and capture with users, neuromarketing, relationships, services, and business models in marketing as well as management models in high-tech and service-intensive industries. %4 Carleton University Mika Westerlund, D. Sc. (Econ.) is an Assistant Professor at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business in Ottawa, Canada. He previously held positions as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley and in the School of Economics at Aalto University. Mika earned his doctoral degree in Marketing from the Helsinki School of Economics. His current research interests include open innovation, business strategy, and management models in high-tech and service-intensive industries. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/748 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2013 %T A Living Lab as a Service: Creating Value for Micro-enterprises through Collaboration and Innovation %A Anna Ståhlbröst %K experience-based values %K innovation intermediary %K Living lab %K micro-enterprise %K value %X The need to innovate is increasingly important for all types and sizes of organizations, but the opportunities for innovation differ substantially between them. For micro-, small,- and medium-sized enterprises, innovation activities are both crucial and demanding because of limited resources, competencies, or vision to innovate their offerings. To support these organizations, the concept of living labs as a service has started to emerge. This concept refers to living labs offering services such as designing the idea-generation processes, planning or carrying out real-world tests of innovations, and pre-market launch assessments. In this article, we will present the findings from a study of micro-enterprises operating in the information technology development sector, including the experienced value of services provided to the companies by a research-based living lab. We share experiences from Botnia, our own living lab in northern Sweden. In this living lab, our aim of creating value for customers is of key importance. Our study shows that using a living lab as a service can generate three different types of value: improved innovations, the role the living lab can play, and the support the living lab offers. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 3 %P 37-42 %8 11/2013 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/744 %N 11 %1 Luleå University of Technology Anna Ståhlbröst is a Senior Lecturer in Social Informatics at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, where she also holds a PhD in Social Informatics. Her research is focused on the phenomena of living labs and open, user-driven innovation processes, with special interest in service innovation and end-user needs and motivations. Anna's research is related to different application areas such as energy, domestic-IT use, and smart cities. She has participated in several international and national innovation and research projects, and she has contributed to the field with more than forty journal and conference articles. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/744 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2013 %T Local Open Innovation: How to Go from Ideas to Solutions %A Oscar Smulders %K intellectual property %K local open innovation %K Maintenance Valuepark %K Quest for Solutions %K regional innovation ecosystem %X Local open innovation can be used to create a powerful dynamic within a local multi-stakeholder environment. This article shares the experiences of setting up a collaborative innovation process in a regional initiative in the Netherlands. In the first phase of the process, a couple of interactive idea generating sessions have been organized. These so called Quest for Solutions sessions have not only generated a rich set of useful solutions, but they also created a positive vibe within the local community. Factors that have contributed to the success of the idea generation sessions are working around real-life problems involving people who are directly affected by the problem. The structure of the sessions with alternating phases of divergence, exploration, and convergence allowed for broad understanding of the problems, exploration of potential solutions, and working towards result-oriented value statements. Key challenges in translating the ideas into solutions have been determining the value case and dealing with intellectual property. Special attention is given to the notion of innovative contract design as a means of dealing with intellectual property in an environment of local open innovation. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 3 %P 21-26 %8 03/2013 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/666 %N 3 %1 Minase Oscar Smulders is consultant for Minase, a company that focuses on creating strategic partnerships between companies, improving collaboration within supply chains, and setting up collaborative clusters and innovative networks. Oscar received an MSc degree in Business Economics from Tilburg University and an MBA degree at Université du Québec à Montréal. Recently, he has been involved as Project Manager in the development of the Maintenance Valuepark (MVP), and recently he has taken up the role of Innovation Manager for the Knowledge and Innovation Centre of the MVP. Development and sharing of knowledge, network learning, and creation of trust are his focal points. Oscar believes in a participative approach, working together with all relevant stakeholders in an open and transparent setting, and sharing knowledge and opinions in order to reach the best outcomes. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/666 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2012 %T Living Labbing the Rotterdam Way: Co-Creation as an Enabler for Urban Innovation %A Ingrid Mulder %K co-creation %K contextual research %K design techniques %K living methodologies %K participatory design %X The living lab concept seems appropriate to study the design and evaluation of innovative services that enrich everyday life. This article elaborates on “living methodologies”, methods and tools necessary in "living labbing". Living methodologies address the social dynamics of everyday life that are essential for understanding living labs, not only conceptually, but also as mature methodologies for fostering innovation in real-life contexts. We report on three cases from Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where "living labbing" was used to enable citizens to co-develop their city. These cases utilized visual ethnography as a research method and prototyping and co-creating as design tools. The cases not only inspire citizen participation, but also inform social innovation and city’s policymaking. The user-driven approach, do-it-yourself mindset, and the participatory character perfectly fit with the down-to-earth attitude of Rotterdam residents. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 2 %P 39-43 %8 09/2012 %U http://timreview.ca/article/607 %N 9 %1 Delft University of Technology Ingrid Mulder is Associate Professor of Design Techniques at ID-StudioLab, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, and she is a research professor at Creating 010, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. She received her MA in Policy and Organization Sciences from the University of Tilburg, and she received her PhD degree from the University of Twente in the Faculty of Behavior Sciences. In 2005, she headed the evaluation of the first Dutch living lab, “Kenniswijk”, which included over 116 innovative services experienced by 15,000 inhabitants having broadband Internet access. In the FP6 project CORELABS, she led the harmonization of methods and tools resulting in the establishment of the European Network of Living Labs. Her current research emphasizes open data, citizen participation, and responsible design for social cities of tomorrow. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/607 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2012 %T Living Labs as Open-Innovation Networks %A Seppo Leminen %A Mika Westerlund %A Anna-Greta Nyström %K co-creation %K innovation %K living labs %K networks %K Open innovation %X Living labs bring experimentation out of companies’ R&D departments to real-life environments with the participation and co-creation of users, partners, and other parties. This study discusses living labs as four different types of networks characterized by open innovation: utilizer-driven, enabler-driven, provider-driven, and user-driven. The typology is based on interviews with the participants of 26 living labs in Finland, Sweden, Spain, and South Africa. Companies can benefit from knowing the characteristics of each type of living lab; this knowledge will help them to identify which actor drives the innovation, to anticipate likely outcomes, and to decide what kind of role they should play while "living labbing". Living labs are networks that can help them create innovations that have a superior match with user needs and can be upscaled promptly to the global market. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 2 %P 6-11 %8 09/2012 %U http://timreview.ca/article/602 %N 9 %1 Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Aalto University Seppo Leminen, D. Sc. (Econ.), Lic. Tech., holds positions as Principal Lecturer at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the Aalto University School of Business in Finland. Seppo holds a doctoral degree in Marketing from the Hanken School of Economics and a licentiate degree in Information Technology at the Helsinki University of Technology. His research and consultation interests include value co-creation and capture with users as well as relationships, services, and business models in marketing. He runs various living lab and business model projects relating to ICT. %2 Carleton University Mika Westerlund, D. Sc. (Econ.) is an Assistant Professor at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business in Ottawa, Canada. He previously held positions as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley and in the School of Economics at Aalto University. Mika earned his doctoral degree in Marketing from the Helsinki School of Economics. His doctoral research focused on software firms’ business models and his current research interests include open innovation, business strategy, and management models in high-tech and service-intensive industries. %3 Åbo Akademi University Anna-Greta Nyström, D. Sc. (Econ.) is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Economics at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. Anna-Greta holds a doctoral degree in International Marketing from the School of Business and Economics at Åbo Akademi University. Her doctoral research focused on industry change in the Finnish telecommunications sector, with a special focus on technological convergence. Anna-Greta’s current research interests include business-to-business branding, consumer behaviour in high-tech industries, and changing media-consumption patterns. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/602 %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2012 %T Living Labs for Cross-Border Systemic Innovation %A Hans Schaffers %A Petra Turkama %K collaboration %K innovation %K living labs %K networks %K systemic %X Innovation is increasingly taking place in cross-border collaborative networks, which are shaped by the characteristics of systemic innovation, the strategies and objectives of main actors, and the dynamics of the innovation process. Participation in such networks is of high importance for small firms, but requires long-term investments and a diverse range of collaboration and innovation capabilities. This article explores how living labs, understood as innovation projects based on open and user-centric innovation methodologies, can form collaboration networks to support small firms and other actors to engage in cross-border collaboration and to accelerate the development and acceptance of innovations. Based on the lessons learned from a major living lab project, APOLLON, we conclude that adopting the living labs networking approach requires thorough understanding of each party’s objectives and drivers, the alignment of operational processes, establishment of open and collaborative culture, as well as competences, methods, and tools for supporting cooperation and community building. %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 2 %P 25-30 %8 09/2012 %U http://timreview.ca/article/605 %N 9 %1 Aalto University School of Business Hans Schaffers, PhD, is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Knowledge and Innovation Research at Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki, Finland. He is also an innovation consultant in the Netherlands. His main research interests include open innovation, collaborative networks, living labs, and urban development. He has initiated and led various projects in the area of living labs innovation, collaborative working, and smart cities. He has been the living labs coordinator of the Collaboration@Rural integrated project and methodology leader of the APOLLON project discussed in this paper. %2 Aalto University School of Business Petra Turkama, PhD, is Director of the Centre for Knowledge and Innovation Research at Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki, Finland. Her main research interests are collaborative innovation networks and innovation systems. She has worked on several living labs projects in the past, including APOLLON, and currently contributes to related EU projects such as SILVER on pre-commercial procurement, and CONCORD, a project coordinating the Future Internet PPP programme. %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/605 %0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2011 %T Learning from Failure: A Case Study in Entrepreneurship %A Daniel Crenna %X Business ventures often fail even when market demand is demonstrated and evaluated by peers, and when the project team is capable of producing the work. In this informal case study based on the author's own experiences, the topics of market size and fit, team size, human dynamics, business validation, and interaction design are explored to form a picture of how a business with seemingly promising prospects could still fail. Specifically, the challenges faced by small or single-person implementation teams are discussed, with suggestions for overcoming these challenges to produce more realistic and viable businesses. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 06/2011 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/447 %N June 2011 %9 Articles %1 Postmark Daniel Crenna is a software developer from Ottawa, Canada. Daniel has delivered software for the web's biggest brands and has created open source software for millions of users. He is currently the lead developer for Postmark, a hosted email service provider, and writes on technical entrepreneurship at danielcrenna.com. He is currently at the design stage of his next tech venture. %0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2011 %T Lessons from an Open Source Business %A Fred Dixon %X Creating a successful company is difficult; but creating a successful company, a successful open source project, and a successful ecosystem all at the same time is much more difficult. This article takes a retrospective look at some of the lessons we have learned in building BigBlueButton, an open source web conferencing system for distance education, and in building Blindside Networks, a company following the traditional business model of providing support and services to paying customers. Our main message is that the focus must be on creating a successful open source project first, for without it, no company in the ecosystem can flourish. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 05/2011 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/441 %N May 2011 %9 Articles %1 Blindside Networks Fred Dixon is CEO of Blindside Networks. He is a serial entrepreneur, having been CEO of two previous companies: Databeacon (acquired by Cognos in 2004) and OpenLava software. In 2003, he was selected as one of Ottawa's "Top 40 under 40" executives by the Ottawa Business Journal. In 1992, he earned a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo. He proudly wears his developer hat when communicating with other members in the BigBlueButton community. %0 Journal Article %J Technology Innovation Management Review %D 2011 %T Letters to the Editor %A Roseann O'Reilly Runte %A Rafik Goubran %A Jerry Tomberlin %B Technology Innovation Management Review %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %V 1 %P 5-6 %8 10/2011 %U http://timreview.ca/article/487 %N 1 %1 President, Carleton University %2 Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Carleton University %3 Dean, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University %R http://doi.org/10.22215/timreview/487 %0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2011 %T Leveraging Collectives as a Technology Startup: A Case Study %A Natasha D'Souza %X Entrepreneurs face a daunting challenge in turning a solution to a compelling problem into a viable business. Recent research into multi-sided platforms and collective action has highlighted an approach that may enable entrepreneurs to lower the risk of a new venture and increase revenue by delivering value to all stakeholders in a collective, not just to the company itself. However, the shift in thinking required to apply this new approach is a challenge of its own. In this article, we provide an overview of both the new and traditional approaches to development and commercialization. Next, we describe a problem for which we are currently developing a business opportunity to solve: helping parents provide adequate and appropriate support to children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or autism. We then use this problem as a case study to illustrate how the implementation of a facial emotion recognition software application might be substantially different depending on the development and commercialization approach used. Finally, we describe the key lessons learned and next steps in developing this business opportunity. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 05/2011 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/440 %N May 2011 %9 Articles %1 Virtual EyeSee Natasha D'Souza, founder of Virtual EyeSee, has over 15 years of hi-tech experience working for Fortune 500, mid-sized, and startup companies. She has a degree in Electrical Engineering and is currently a graduate student in the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University. She is a regular guest speaker who is passionate about technology and inspiring people to develop unique solutions to complex problems. %0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2010 %T Low Cost Cellular Networks with OpenBTS %A David Burgess %X In mid-2007, Kestrel Signal Processing, Inc., a small software radio consulting shop in northern California, started writing an implementation of a GSM basestation. The initial developers were myself and Kestrel co-founder Harvind Samra. Our goal was to create a new kind of light-weight cellular network that could be built out inexpensively in remote and sparsely populated areas. Our software-radio GSM system, now called OpenBTS, was released publicly under the GPLv3 license in September 2008 and will be used in pilot deployments with small operators by the time this article goes to publication. This will probably be the first use of a free software basestation in a public cellular network, where both network operators and subscribers can download and read the full source code of the GSM protocol stack that connects their handsets to the rest of the world and where the operators will be free to modify the system to meet their specific needs. This article introduces the goals and evolution of the OpenBTS project. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 03/2010 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/332 %N March 2010 %9 Articles %1 OpenBTS David Burgess is a Partner at Kestrel Signal Processing, Inc. and Co-Founder of The OpenBTS Project. David has nearly 15 years of experience in signal processing system development and scientific computing. Much of his work in recent years has been in the areas of signals intelligence, radiolocation, and navigation. He has also worked in electronic warfare, image processing, high-fidelity audio processing, and DSP system design. He holds an M.S. degree in computer science, and a B.S. degree in electrical engineering, both from the Georgia Institute of Technology. %0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2009 %T Lessons on Community Management from the Open Source World %A Angela Byron %X From the outside (and often times from within, too), the success of healthy open source projects defies all logic. Scores of individuals from all over the world, all of whom have different skill levels, use cases, and experience, not to mention native languages and time zones, collaborate together in order to help make a project succeed. How is it that all of this chaos comes together and creates something wonderful and useful? And moreover, what lessons can be taken from how open source projects work "on the ground" and applied to our practical, daily lives and organizations? This article will attempt to extrapolate some of the experience gleaned from being immersed for over four years in the Drupal project. Drupal is an open source website building tool which has transformed from a small hobby project in 1999 to a robust framework powering hundreds of thousands of websites today. But behind buzzwords like "social publishing" and "content management framework" there lies a diverse, passionate, and vibrant global community. We present some of the key ingredients to the community's success, many of which can be applied to any organization. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 06/2009 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/258 %N June 2009 %9 Articles %1 Drupal Angela Byron lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and works as a senior web consultant at Lullabot, an open source consulting and training company. She started in open source as a Google Summer of Code student in 2005, and has since completely immersed herself in the Drupal community. Her work includes leading core development on the upcoming 7.0 release and helping new contributors to get involved. Angela co-authored the O'Reilly book Using Drupal, is on the Board of Directors for the Drupal Association, and was the recipient of the Google-O'Reilly Open 2008 Source Award for Best Contributor. %0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2009 %T Licensing of Open APIs %A G.R. Gangadharan %X Two major trends in software development today are the open source paradigm and the notion of software as a service. The combination of these has lead to the concept of open APIs and mashups. Since late 2005, there has been a rapid proliferation of applications, referred to as mashups, that combine data and services provided by third parties through open APIs with data sources owned by users. Open APIs give users access to the data or services of an information technology platform. A well-known example is the Google Maps API, which generates maps for a given location, whose output can be combined with other data and services into mashups. Combining services and data from multiple sources raises several issues related to intellectual rights in mashups. However, the concept of mashups is currently in a nascent stage, and service and data providers often underestimate the relevance of these issues. In this paper we give an overview of open API licensing and provide examples from current open APIs. We then briefly discuss licensing of open APIs. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 04/2009 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/243 %N April 2009 %9 Articles %1 Novay Dr. G.R. Gangadharan is a research scientist at the Novay (Telematica Institute), Enschede, The Netherlands. His research interests are mainly located on the interface between the technological perspective and the business perspective. His research interests include Service Oriented Computing, Internet Software Engineering, Intellectual Property Rights, Free and Open Source Systems, and Business Models for Software and Services. %0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2008 %T Ladder of Participation: Business Models for Peer Production %A Michel Bauwens %X Open source software is just one part of a much wider social and economic ecosystem that is evolving around increased participation of what-used-to-be consumers. New roles are emerging, including "produsers", with an intentional 's', to refer to the amalgamation of being both a user and a producer, and "end-makers", another intentional concept to be contrasted with end-users. In this new ecosystem, produsers and end-makers either partially, but sometimes fully, produce value, aided or unaided by institutions and companies. This creates new dynamics that need to be understood. One way of increasing our understanding is to look at the inter-locking dynamics of both businesses and the participant-communities, for which the following article constructs a model of Interaction. Each distinct type of relationship generates different dynamics and associated business models. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 01/2008 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/113 %N January 2008 %9 Articles %1 P2P Foundation Michel Bauwens was a serial Internet entrepreneur in his home country of Belgium, as well as eBusiness Strategy Manager for the country's largest telco Belgacom. In 2005, he moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand and created the P2P Foundation, lecturing worldwide about the implications of this social/economic re-organization of our life. Michel has created a workshop format to introduce business and policy audiences to the logic of peer production and its implications for business strategies and policy making. %0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2008 %T Language Insecurity %A Frederic Michaud %A Frederic Painchaud %X Developing reliable and secure software has become a challenging task, mainly because of the unmanageable complexity of the software systems we build today. Software flaws have many causes, but our observations show that they mostly come from two broad sources: i) design, such as a malicious or unintentional backdoor; and ii) implementation, such as a buffer overflow. To address these problems, our research group at Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) Valcartier first worked on design issues. A prototype of a UML design verifier was built. Our approach was successful, but we faced two difficulties: i) specifying interesting security properties at the design level; and ii) scalability of the verification process. Building on this experience, we studied design patterns for the implementation of security mechanisms. The output was a security design pattern catalog, available from the authors, that can help software architects choose mature and proven designs instead of constantly trying to reinvent the wheel. This paper addresses the implementation issues from our evaluation of currently available automatic source code verifiers that search for program sanity and security bugs. From this evaluation, it becomes clear that the choice of programming language to use when starting an open source project can have many important consequences on security, maintainability, reliability, speed of development, and collaboration. As a corollary, software quality is largely dependent on the adequacy of the programming language with respect to the desired properties of the system developed. Therefore, the adoption of open source software (OSS) should consider the programming language that was used. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 06/2008 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/158 %N June 2008 %9 Articles %1 Defence Research and Development Canada Frederic Michaud is a researcher specialized in software security including verification and validation, defensive programming, and robust architectures for information systems operated in hostile environments. %2 Defence Research and Development Canada Frederic Painchaud is a defence scientist at Defence Research and Development Canada, Valcartier. His research interests are language semantics, formal methods, program analysis, and IT security. %0 Journal Article %J Open Source Business Resource %D 2007 %T Lead Projects %A Peter Hoddinott %A Richard Alam %X Corporate Directory Platform and the Ottawa Tech Community described. %B Open Source Business Resource %I Talent First Network %C Ottawa %8 07/2007 %G eng %U http://timreview.ca/article/98 %N July 2007 %9 Lead Projects %1 Talent First Network Peter Hoddinott has over 25 years of experience in the Information and Communications industry. Peter has a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Computer Science, and recently completed the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton. He is currently employed by Carleton where he works full time on advancing the objectives of the Talent First Network. %2 Richard Alam completed his Master's degree at Carleton writing a thesis on how companies make money from the open source projects they initiate. He started the Blindside Project which develops a multimedia communication system using software from different open source projects.